Friday, May 17, 2013

Twitter’s Follow Friday (#FF on Twitter) is a great idea – in concept.

In reality, I’m not going to follow someone unless you give me a compelling reason to, an approach Gini Dietrich also prefers. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll see that I usually recommend just one person each #FF and I’ll tell you why I like them.

I’m not quite sure when the “millennial” generation oozed backwards to eat up my demographic, but I am quite certain that I spent most of my life as a Gen X-er. A latch-key kid.

Reading further into Brian’s post, his statements about Millenials reinforce that I don’t belong. I’m certainly not a digital native.

In fact, I distinctly remember going to my friend’s house in Grade 12 so that we could use “e-mail.” They were one of about 10 families in town that had the internet. I remember learning to code HTML before you could use background images. That’s right, kids, once upon a time every website was black text on a grey background.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Somehow, I have no photos of the ducks, but
our neighbourhood deer also make me happy.

The night my daughter was born, I sat in the hospital bed
holding her, crying because she was crying and because I’d run out of ideas on
how to soothe her. (And, lets face it, because the exhaustion and hormonal
insanity of childbirth didn’t exactly enhance my zen.) The two of us were all
alone - Foothills Hospital in Calgary does not allow overnight visitors in the
maternity ward – and, looking at her tiny blue eyes, I realised that we were going
to be moving back to the Maritimes.

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Communication generalist with 15 years experience currently finishing my Master of Arts in Professional Communication at Royal Roads University. Proud to call the Maritimes home, I've travelled across the globe and lived in crazy places like Calgary, Canada, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Love writing, designing, creating strategic communication plans (yes, really), analytics, and social media.